All 1968 Book Awards

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Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

Cocksure

Mordecai Richler

Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction

Hunting Tigers Under Glass

Mordecai Richler

Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry

Selected Poems 1956-68**

Leonard Cohen

Hugo Awards – Novel

Lord of Light

Roger Zelazny

Nebula – Novel

The Einstein Intersection

Samuel R. Delany

Pulitzer Prize – Biography or Autobiography

Memoirs

George F. Kennan

Pulitzer Prize – Fiction

The Confessions of Nat Turner

William Styron

Pulitzer Prize – General Nonfiction

Rousseau and Revolution, vol. 10 of The Story of Civilization,

Will and Ariel Durant

Pulitzer Prize – History

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Bernard Bailyn

Pulitzer Prize – Poetry

The Hard Hours

Anthony Hecht

Boston Globe – Fiction & Poetry

The Spring Rider

John Lawson

Boston Globe – Picture Book

Tikki Tikki Tembo

Arlene Mosel

Caldecott – Picture Book

Drummer Hoff

Barbara Emberley

Carnegie Medal – Children’s

The Moon in the Cloud

Rosemary Harris

Edgar Allan Poe – First Novel

Act of Fear

Michael Collins

Edgar Allan Poe – Juvenile

Signpost to Terror

Gretchen Sprague

Edgar Allan Poe – Novel

God Save the Mark

Donald E. Westlake

Greenaway Medal – Illustrator

A Dictionary of Chivalry

Pauline Baynes

Newbery Medal – Children’s

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

E.L. Konigsburg